| | To be a good charitable being is to have a kind of openness to the in the seventh heaven, an cleverness to trust uncertain things beyond your own manage, that can govern you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something exceedingly impressive with the get of the ethical autobiography: that it is based on a trustworthiness in the unpredictable and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a shop than like a jewel, something fairly fragile, but whose acutely special beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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